Sep 28, 2021
That might be some subtext. But the genre does explicitly imagine the end of the military, the government, and the country, so that would seem to be somewhat thin subtext.
There's an assumption about the state of nature, the loss of morality too, and a Darwinian war between animals (the strong and the weak, the predators and the prey). If anything, it's social Darwinism that's the guiding idea, I think, and I argue elsewhere that social Darwinism is essential to so-called conservative thought.
